FUGAZI - "Give Me The Cure" Tablature
Official FUGAZI Tablature & Sheet Music »
-##
From: cborst@cs.tamu.edu (Christoph W Borst)
Fugazi tab for "Give me the Cure"
Transcribed by Christoph Borst (mohawk@tamu.edu) sometime in 1994
http://tam2000.tamu.edu/~cwb2900/
Please send me comments, corrections, etc.
README: Over the past couple years I have seen several ASCII tabs for
Fugazi songs. Not until recently did I actually dig out the old
record and realize how far off most were. So, I played along
with the songs a couple times to find something that sounds better:
Think of this as an improvement to the already available tab.
I don't claim that it's perfect -- I am not a big Fugazi fan and
this is typed from memory.
At the beginning, it's like this:
---------------------------------
-----3-----2---0-----0-----2---3-
--------------------------------- (repeat many times)
-2-2---2-2---2---2-2---2-2---2---
---------------------------------
---------------------------------
(let ring on most notes)
Note: At one point, the second half of that part is left off.
Also, some chorus or an overdub is added for a while.
Then, it does this:
------- ---
------- and it ends up just ---
-----3- (repeat strumming this -3-
-2-2--- several with crescendo: -2-
------- times) ---
------- ---
Then something like this chord is struck:
-0-
-5-
-4-
-2-
---
---
The second half uses these chords:
(I have not indicated how many times each is struck)
--- --- --- --- ---
--- --- --- --- ---
-7- -6- -4- -6- -7-
-7- -6- -4- -6- -7-
-5- -4- -2- -4- -5-
--- --- --- --- ---
^^
Note: you may want to strike the open E string
or an E chord at the beginning
and again, but with high part added
--- --- --- -------
--- --- --- -------
-7- -6- -4- -8/9\8-
-7- -6- -4- -6/7\6-
-5- -4- -2- -------
--- --- --- -------
^^
Note as above
This riff is thrown in periodically for good measure:
(the last chord is cut from the figure that precedes it)
------------------------ ---
------------------------ ---
------------------------ ---
-5--5--5--5--7--7--7-5-- -2-
-5--5--5--5--7--7--7-5-- -2-
-3--3--3--3--5--5--5-3-- -0-
^^^
This last chord just begins the next figure,
which was given about 30 lines up.
When we are no longer amused, the song
approaches its end by varying the previous
riff -- the following is added:
-----------------------------
-----------------------------
-----------------------------
----------------------/\----- (make the last note waver by bending the
-9-----9-10---9-----9//\\---- neck forward or using the whammy bar or
-7-----7--8---7-----7/sl\--0~~ whatever you've got, or you can simulate
it with a bent note one 7th up)
Finally there's a mess during which I just
hold the following chord. I emphasize different tones in
it to make it sound more like the recording, e.g. by hitting just
the open E or A strings sometimes and the other 4 strings other times.
You could also pick a sort of up-down pattern on the EADG strings --
listen to the song to hear the B (from the G string) in that pattern.
-0-
-5-
-4-
-2-
-0-
-0-
have a nice day -:)
This musical interpretation has been removed due to a legal threat from Moses & Singer LLP,
representing the National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) and
The Music Publisher's Association of the United States (MPA).
Unfortunately, these threats are fueled by greed and being masked by a "copyright infringement." They claim tab sites are
"hurting the songwriters," but it's a known fact that the publishing companies garner most of the
revenue. Instead, they would prefer you to purchase the
official FUGAZI tablature
which is an option we've always given our users. And due to the highly error-prone nature of tabs on the internet, many choose to go this route.
These companies also do not realize that tablature sites help to promote their artists.
For more information on this onslaught, you can read the
NY Times Article.
We hope one of the larger tablature sites will have the money to fight this. Until then, we urge you all to keep tabbing songs and sharing them in any way you can.
Return to FUGAZI Tablature »
Official FUGAZI Tablature & Sheet Music »
